OR, MANUAI, OF THK APIARV. 



CHAPTER XVn. 



HONEY-PLANTS. 



As bees are dependent mainly upon flowers for honey, it 

 of course follows that the apiarist's success will depend largely 

 upon the abundance of honey-secreting plants in the vicinity 

 of his apiary. True it is that certain bark and plant lice 



Fig. 196. 

 2 



3 



y f 



Tulip-Tree Bark-Louse, 3, 4, 5, and 6, Greatly Magnified.— Original, 



2 Underside of scale. 

 6 Leg. 



1 Scale on Twig. 

 3, 4 Young Lice. 

 5 Antenna. 



secrete a kind of liquid sweet, which, in the dearth of any- 

 thing better, the bees seem glad to appropriate. I have thus 

 seen the bees thick about a large bark-louse which attacks the 

 tulip-tree, and thus often destroys one of our best honey-trees. 

 I have described this insect (Fig. 1%) under the name of 



